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Treating Pattern Sublanguages as Patterns with an Application to Organizational Patterns

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Waheedullah Sulaiman Khail,

Valentino VranićAuthors Info & Claims

EuroPLoP '17: Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs

Article No.: 6, Pages 1 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/3147704.3147710

Published: 12 July 2017 Publication History

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Organizing people is very important and one of the great challenges, and in particular in software development. Organizational patterns are the key to piecemeal growth of organizations. To deal with the complexity of choosing right pattern sequences and understanding pattern languages in general, we propose representing them as patterns. Such summary level patterns can be used to treat meaningful parts of pattern languages: pattern sublanguages. We applied this approach to organizational patterns. Specifically, we expressed the pattern story of establishing a new project as the New Project pattern. We also captured the dynamics of this pattern by a state diagram. As it can be observed by comparison, summary level patterns overcome patterns stories in terms of comprehensibility and consistency, with the main contribution being a direct treatment of the conflicting forces.

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Treating Pattern Sublanguages as Patterns with an Application to Organizational Patterns
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Patterns

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Frt'ala TVranic V(2022)Improving Organizational Pattern Comprehensibility by Varying Their Form and Relationships2022 IEEE Zooming Innovation in Consumer Technologies Conference (ZINC)10.1109/ZINC55034.2022.9840528(134-139)Online publication date: 25-May-2022
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Waseeb SKhail WWahaj HVranić V(2020)Extracting Relations Between Organizational Patterns Using Association MiningProceedings of the European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs 202010.1145/3424771.3424817(1-9)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3424771.3424817
Vranić VVranić ABoldt T(2019)Drama patternsProceedings of the 24th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs10.1145/3361149.3361153(1-9)Online publication date: 3-Jul-2019
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